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It appears the world finally has an effective Ebola vaccine. A new study reports that a vaccine designed by scientists working at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg induces a quick ...

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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair ramped up his travel in July as his party's popularity swelled - focusing heavily on key battlegrounds of Toronto and southern Ontario - as part of a sustained effort to help Canadians get to know him better.

It was supposed to be epic. It was supposed to be breath taking. It had its moments, but it wasn't nearly what it could have been. I'm talking about everything soccer in our country these past two months.

Smokers aren't welcome in sanctimonious Vancouver. Everyone knows that. Most are also aware of this: The city's sweeping smoking bans are applied to tobacco and any other substance that isn't cannabis.

The three major parties were organizing Thursday for the apparent launch of a federal election, with the NDP announcing the richest quarter of fundraising in its history, and the Tory and Liberal leaders planning campaign-style appearances at different ends of the country on Sunday.

The rising potential of human rights cases and securities class-actions, along with some new Canadian regulations, show that if a company pays lip service to corporate social responsibility, it does so at its peril.

Actress Dove Cameron says playing the daughter of evil sorceress Maleficent in the new Disney movie Descendants reminded her of the bullies who picked on her as a kid - bullies she now has empathy for.

A just-published Canadian study has added heft to a provocative new theory about bullying: the behaviour is literally in the genes, an inherited trait that actually helps build social rank and sex appeal.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has named Alberta Court of Appeal Justice Russell Brown as his latest appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. Brown, a former barrister and law professor, is taking over for Justice Marshall Rothstein, who is retiring on Aug. 31, Harper said Monday in a statement.